Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sections have come and gone. That first 1923 issue had Imaginary Interviews as well as two sections called Point with Pride and View with Alarm. It also had sections called Aeronautics, Crime, and Law-no longer with us, though their subject matter is. Other vanished sections include Animals, Transport, and Personality. Time Table (1929) disappeared but resurfaced in slightly different form as Time Listings...
...House? No Car? Nkrumah's Cabinet was stunned and indignant, for almost everyone in high position has taken advantage of "freedom" to arrange some lucrative deals on the side. And why not? asked Minister of Transport and Communications Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who has acquired four mansions in Accra since he became a government minister. Before independence he used to earn $22 a month as a debt collector for a newspaper; now he earns nearly $1,400. "When I receive my salary am I expected to throw it into the sea?" he demanded. "I must not build a house...
...cool darkness before Sunday morning dawn, squads of paratroopers stealthily slipped through the streets of Algiers. One group ringed the ornate Moorish residence of France's delegate general in Algeria, Jean Morin, and unceremoniously took him prisoner in his bed. Also seized was Transport Minister Robert Buron, who happened to be visiting Algiers. Other paratroopers took prisoner the top military man in Algeria. General Fernand Gambiez, and occupied all the city's key buildings-post office, police and government offices. Shortly before 9 a.m., Radio Algiers announced the news to the stunned city: three paratroop regiments had taken...
...cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland." Yugoslav diplomats, hounded by the police and sometimes beaten...
Egbert insists on knowing the basics of whatever he is doing. At Boeing Airplane Co., as assistant superintendent of production on B-17s, he studied engineering so he could talk a mechanic's language. During World War II, when he went into the Marines as an Air Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon...